Interesting Discoveries Thread (Good or Bad)

[Mr GT-2]

not really interesting, but while driving it tells me to take a break and shows a coffee cup icon.

Yea mine would do that all the time so I turned it off

 

[Soca Boy]

Yea mine would do that all the time so I turned it off

I set the lane keeping assist not to be so active, It expects you to drive dead centre in the lane. Doesn’t realize your dodging pot holes and thinks your your falling asleep.

 

[Crisis]

I just took my car on its first road trip. I covered about 650 miles over 3 days and learned about its highway manners. Understand that I'm driving lightly travelled, relatively flat and straight prairie highways with lots of time to kill, so I had time to experiment a bit.

While some of my observations have likely already been covered in this thread, there's just too many pages to go though to check for duplication. A couple of things stood out.

• The LKA is is both surprisingly effective and also very unobtrusive in Active mode. I'd take my hands off the wheel, holding them just beside it and the car would track very well through curves. However, I did quickly discover that the car did not like me driving with my hands off the wheel and promptly gave me a warning that no hands on the wheel were detected. A couple of times, it also announced that it was cancelling the LKA because of this. I can understand that, and have no problem with it, as these are not meant to be autonomous cars. However, over the course of the next couple days I also got the "no hands on steering wheel" warning while I was driving with one hand lightly on the wheel as I often do. I adjusted the Driver Awareness setting from High sensitivity to Normal in the DIC and that seemed to take car of that.
• In Sport or Custom (mostly like Sport in my case, other than the suspension setting) drive settings, the transmission will select 8th gear for cruising at 75 MPH when in cruise control (CC), but 7th gear when not in CC. I find that a little odd and did some experimenting with it to confirm that is what was happening and there was no doubt that was it. I tend to manually shift my car but when I reach highway cruising speed and set the CC, I then shift it into D, as I find the automatic kickdown is most effective for passing. So long as I am in CC, I can shift from 8th the D and the revs stay steady at about 1900. But when I do the same thing without CC engaged, the revs jump to about 2200 and I had to paddle shift back up from 7th to 8th again. I didn't try again at higher speeds, but I'm curious if the car will simply never select top gear in D when set in Sport mode.

All in all, a very good first road trip. The car eats up the miles easily and passing is a breeze. I found it wasn't tough to be hitting 100 MPH when passing - something to be very aware of, as my radar detector went off about 30 seconds after completing a pass. I definitely wouldn't want to get clocked at that speed.

One more note, I find it very annoying that this forum's bots insist on not letting me abbreviate Lane Keeping Assistance as LKA without then inserting the full term in brackets behind L K A. Ah Ha, if I leave spaces between the letters, it doesn't do it.

 

[Soca Boy]

I just took my car on its first road trip. I covered about 650 miles over 3 days and learned about its highway manners. Understand that I'm driving lightly travelled, relatively flat and straight prairie highways with lots of time to kill, so I had time to experiment a bit.

While some of my observations have likely already been covered in this thread, there's just too many pages to go though to check for duplication. A couple of things stood out.

• The LKA (Lane Keep Assist) is is both surprisingly effective and also very unobtrusive in Active mode. I'd take my hands off the wheel, holding them just beside it and the car would track very well through curves. However, I did quickly discover that the car did not like me driving with my hands off the wheel and promptly gave me a warning that no hands on the wheel were detected. A couple of times, it also announced that it was cancelling the LKA (Lane Keep Assist) because of this. I can understand that, and have no problem with it, as these are not meant to be autonomous cars. However, over the course of the next couple days I also got the "no hands on steering wheel" warning while I was driving with one hand lightly on the wheel as I often do. I adjusted the Driver Awareness setting from High sensitivity to Normal in the DIC and that seemed to take car of that.
• In Sport or Custom (mostly like Sport in my case, other than the suspension setting) drive settings, the transmission will select 8th gear for cruising at 75 MPH when in cruise control (CC), but 7th gear when not in CC. I find that a little odd and did some experimenting with it to confirm that is what was happening and there was no doubt that was it. I tend to manually shift my car but when I reach highway cruising speed and set the CC, I then shift it into D, as I find the automatic kickdown is most effective for passing. So long as I am in CC, I can shift from 8th the D and the revs stay steady at about 1900. But when I do the same thing without CC engaged, the revs jump to about 2200 and I had to paddle shift back up from 7th to 8th again. I didn't try again at higher speeds, but I'm curious if the car will simply never select top gear in D when set in Sport mode.

All in all, a very good first road trip. The car eats up the miles easily and passing is a breeze. I found it wasn't tough to be hitting 100 MPH when passing - something to be very aware of, as my radar detector went off about 30 seconds after completing a pass. I definitely wouldn't want to get clocked at that speed.

One more note, I find it very annoying that this forum's bots insist on not letting me abbreviate Lane Keeping Assistance as LKA (Lane Keep Assist) without then inserting the full term in brackets behind L K A. Ah Ha, if I leave spaces between the letters, it doesn't do it.

How was the gas mileage?

 

[DaJackson]

@Crisis the Hand on Wheel message is a bit misleading. It’s not detecting your hand on the wheel it’s detecting you making inputs on the steering wheel. So sometimes if you are on perfectly straight road and don’t need to make any minor corrections you will get the message. If it comes up I usually just wiggle the wheel a few mm, enough to move the wheel but not turn the tires.

 

[Marc Collins]

I just took my car on its first road trip. I covered about 650 miles over 3 days and learned about its highway manners. Understand that I'm driving lightly travelled, relatively flat and straight prairie highways with lots of time to kill, so I had time to experiment a bit.

While some of my observations have likely already been covered in this thread, there's just too many pages to go though to check for duplication. A couple of things stood out.

• The LKA (Lane Keep Assist) is is both surprisingly effective and also very unobtrusive in Active mode. I'd take my hands off the wheel, holding them just beside it and the car would track very well through curves. However, I did quickly discover that the car did not like me driving with my hands off the wheel and promptly gave me a warning that no hands on the wheel were detected. A couple of times, it also announced that it was cancelling the LKA (Lane Keep Assist) because of this. I can understand that, and have no problem with it, as these are not meant to be autonomous cars. However, over the course of the next couple days I also got the "no hands on steering wheel" warning while I was driving with one hand lightly on the wheel as I often do. I adjusted the Driver Awareness setting from High sensitivity to Normal in the DIC and that seemed to take car of that.
• In Sport or Custom (mostly like Sport in my case, other than the suspension setting) drive settings, the transmission will select 8th gear for cruising at 75 MPH when in cruise control (CC), but 7th gear when not in CC. I find that a little odd and did some experimenting with it to confirm that is what was happening and there was no doubt that was it. I tend to manually shift my car but when I reach highway cruising speed and set the CC, I then shift it into D, as I find the automatic kickdown is most effective for passing. So long as I am in CC, I can shift from 8th the D and the revs stay steady at about 1900. But when I do the same thing without CC engaged, the revs jump to about 2200 and I had to paddle shift back up from 7th to 8th again. I didn't try again at higher speeds, but I'm curious if the car will simply never select top gear in D when set in Sport mode.

All in all, a very good first road trip. The car eats up the miles easily and passing is a breeze. I found it wasn't tough to be hitting 100 MPH when passing - something to be very aware of, as my radar detector went off about 30 seconds after completing a pass. I definitely wouldn't want to get clocked at that speed.

One more note, I find it very annoying that this forum's bots insist on not letting me abbreviate Lane Keeping Assistance as LKA (Lane Keep Assist) without then inserting the full term in brackets behind L K A. Ah Ha, if I leave spaces between the letters, it doesn't do it.

Sport mode and CC are, in theory/intent, incompatible with each other...

Also, @Crisis could you tell where the "Driver Awareness" setting is? I have no such setting in the LKA menu, but I guess KIA might have thought it made sense to put it somewhere else?

 

[Crisis]

@Crisis the Hand on Wheel message is a bit misleading. It’s not detecting your hand on the wheel it’s detecting you making inputs on the steering wheel. So sometimes if you are on perfectly straight road and don’t need to make any minor corrections you will get the message. If it comes up I usually just wiggle the wheel a few mm, enough to move the wheel but not turn the tires.

OK, that makes some sense. Just something to get used to, I guess.

How was the gas mileage?

I haven't done a manual calculation, but the DIC was telling me between 25 and 27.5 MPG (US) mostly at a 75 mph cruising speed.

 

[MerlintheMad]

I set the lane keeping assist not to be so active, It expects you to drive dead centre in the lane. Doesn’t realize your dodging pot holes and thinks your your falling asleep.

"They" need to "Siri-up", or "Alexa-up": so that you can talk to your car's driver assistant. "Alexa, I am not falling asleep!" "Okay, got it!"

 

[MerlintheMad]

Sport mode and CC are, in theory/intent, incompatible with each other...

You could fool me. I drove into TX and back in Sport mode and using cruise control as much as possible. I kept it in the manual gate and adjusted the gears with the paddle shifters to keep my RPMs between 2K and 3K. My best avg mpg was 28.3 on that trip.

 

[Manchuz]

Here's a discovery - the headlights are clear coated. Found out when the shop had to redo the PPF. As they pulled off the existing PPF, I noticed a big chunk of coat missing. Difficult to see but can feel the rough edges, but definitely visible when the film was reapplied. I guess that should be a warning for any type of film being applied.....be careful when stripping. Now gotta buff and recoat....sigh.

 

[Gentracker]

Not interesting at all but still a discover; I noticed that once you set the e-brake, you can't release it manually, it will only release after the car is put in gear again.

 

[eflyguy]

You could fool me. I drove into TX and back in Sport mode and using cruise control as much as possible. I kept it in the manual gate and adjusted the gears with the paddle shifters to keep my RPMs between 2K and 3K.

I too often drive this way. I also ride motorcycles, and it's rewarding to drive/ride "well", vs. fast - to know you've "done a good job". So in the right conditions on the right roads, you take control where needed, but frequently hand over some of the controls where not.

 

[DaJackson]

Not interesting at all but still a discover; I noticed that once you set the e-brake, you can't release it manually, it will only release after the car is put in gear again.

On the non Drive By Wire cars you just have to push the e-brake button down to release it.

 

[Rango]

Not interesting at all but still a discover; I noticed that once you set the e-brake, you can't release it manually, it will only release after the car is put in gear again.

On the DBW shifter, you push down on the emergency brake button to release the brake without putting the car into reverse or drive. You have to have the brake pedal pressed to disengage the emergency brake manually.

 

[Rango]

On the non Drive By Wire cars you just have to push the e-brake button down to release it.

I thought non DBW shifters had the foot pedal emergency brake.

 

[StingerGT68]

I thought non DBW shifters had the foot pedal emergency brake.

My base GT has regular shifter but electronic emergency brake. It automatically disengages when I shift into D or R...love that.

 

[FFR6288]

I thought non DBW shifters had the foot pedal emergency brake.

The electronic parking brake is optional on the base trim (Drive Wise package?) and standard on all the other trims.

HTH,

Rich

 

[Gentracker]

On the DBW shifter, you push down on the emergency brake button to release the brake without putting the car into reverse or drive. You have to have the brake pedal pressed to disengage the emergency brake manually.

If that's how yours works then there must be something wrong with mine. Once I set the e-brake it doesn't disengage unless I shift to reverse or drive, that's even with the foot brake pressed.

 

[DaJackson]

If that's how yours works then there must be something wrong with mine. Once I set the e-brake it doesn't disengage unless I shift to reverse or drive, that's even with the foot brake pressed.

Are you pushing the ebrake lever down and not lifting it up?

 

[TXEvertonian]

Auto locking is only half implemented. If I get out of the car and try to open the rear door to get something out the back seat and it is locked one more time I will scream.

First, there should be an option to NOT auto lock the doors while driving. We don't all live in crime-ridden or paranoid USA.

Second, if the doors lock automatically when you drive away or engage a gear, shouldn't they unlock automatically when you do the opposite? Am I missing a setting somewhere to do at least this part?

That's the "Chicago" feature. It's in the manual.